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Battles and Leaders Vol. 1


Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME ONE

  • Preface Page X
  • Prelimenary Events 1
  • Organization of the Two Governments 4
  • Washington on the Eve of the War 8
  • With Slemmer in Pensacola Harbor 26
  • Recollections of the Twiggs Surrender 33
  • From Moultrie to Sumter 40
  • Inside Sumter in '61 49
  • The First Step in the War 74
  • Notes on the Surrender of Fort Sumter 86
  • War Preparations in the North 84
  • The Confederate Government at Montgomery 98
  • Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861 110
  • McClellan in West Virginia 124
  • Going to the Front 147
  • Virginia Scenes in '61 156
  • McDowell's Advance to Bull Run 166
  • The First Battle of the Bull Run 195
  • Responsibilities of the First Bull Run 245
  • General Ewell at Bull Run 259
  • The Confederate Commissariat at Manassas 261
  • The First Year of the War in Missouri 262
  • In Command in Missouri 278
  • Wilson's Creek, and the Death of Lyon 289
  • Arkansas Troops in the Battle of Wilson's Creek 298
  • The Flanking Column at Wilson's Creek 304
  • The Siege of Lexington 307
  • The Pea Ridge Campaign 314
  • Union and Confederate Indians in the Civil War 335
  • Recollections of Foote and the Gun-Boats 339
  • Notes on the Life of Admiral Foote 347
  • General Polk and the Battle of Belmont 348
  • The Gun-Boats at Belmont and Fort Henry 358
  • The Defense of Fort Henry 368
  • Holding Kentucky for the Union 373
  • Marshall and Garfield in Eastern Kentucky 393
  • The Capture of Fort Donelson 398
  • The Opposing Forces at Fort Donelson 429
  • The Western Flotilla 430
  • Ellet and His Steam-Rams at Memphis 453
  • Sawing Out the Channel Above Island Number Ten 460
  • The Battle of Shiloh 465
  • Shiloh Reviewed 487
  • Albert Sidney Johnson at Shiloh 540
  • The Campaign of Shiloh 569
  • Notes of Confederate Staff-Officers at Shiloh 594
  • Surprise and Withdrawl at Shiloh 604
  • The March of Lew Wallaces Division to Shiloh 607
  • The Union and Confederate Navies 611
  • Early Coast Operations in North Carolina 632
  • The Burnside Expedition 660
  • Du Pont and the Port Royal Expedition 670
  • The First Fight of Iron-Clads 692
  • Watching the Merrimac 712
  • The Plan and Construction of the Merrimac 715
  • Notes on The Monitor/Merrimac Fight 718
  • In the "Monitor" Turret 719
  • The Building of the "Monitor" 730
  • The Loss of the Monitor 745
  • Negotiations for the Building of the Monitor 748

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